stfn, to Aviation
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Morning rush hour over the Atlantic. Most aircraft are flying on "tracks", a set of routes defined daily to safely separate traffic in areas where there is no radar coverage.

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hopfgeist,
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@stfn Specifically, these are the "North Atlantic Tracks". There are also "Pacific Tracks".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Tracks

An important factor in the daily redefinition is for eastbound flights to take advantage of jet streams, and for westbound flights to more easily avoid them. The eastbound tracks are therefore sometimes quite a bit south of the geometrically shortest great-circle routes.

If the intent was only separation, this wouldn't be necessary.
#NATOTS #aviation #northatlantictracks #jetstreams #NAT #commercialaviation

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